Letter from the BBC to the Home Office on broadcasting Remembrance Day ceremonies on radio, 1924 (Catalogue ref: HO 45/11557)

This letter is a response from the BBC to a letter written by an official in the Home Office refusing the BBC permission to broadcast the Armistice Day ceremonies in that year.

Armistice Day was on 11 November. It is now known as Remembrance Day.

The reasons given for refusing were that the ceremony was meant to be personal and that people who could not go to London for the ceremonies could go to a similar event near to them. The government also believed that it would not be appropriate to have the BBC broadcasting during the two minutes period of silence.

Soon after this, the BBC was given permission to broadcast the events - and other public events as well. The official Remembrance Day ceremonies are still broadcast by the BBC today.